Well, I can't help it. This morning I was sent what you will read below. I hardly EVER send something that is just a paste and copy, but this was too good and too true, since the Money Crisis has been in the news and seems like everyone is thinking and talking about it. So this totally non-partisan article below really sums up my Personal Opinion as an American Citizen!!! What say you?????
545 PEOPLE
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
If both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, why do we have deficits?
If all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, why do we have inflation and high taxes?
The president proposes the federal budget.
The House of Representatives has the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.
Congress writes the tax code.
Congress sets fiscal policy.
Federal Reserve Bank controls monetary policy.
100 senators, 435 congressmen, 1 president, and 9 Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
Excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
Excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one thing. If they offer a politician a million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. House of Representatives can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. No single domestic problem is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like 'the economy,' 'inflation,' or 'politics' that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess! .
What you do with this now that you have read it is up to you.
1. You can send this to everyone in your address book, and hope they do something about it.
2. You can agree to vote against everyone that is currently in office, knowing that the process will take several years.
3. You can decide to run for office yourself and agree to do the job properly.
4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or re-elect the current bunch.
YOU DECIDE,
BUT AT LEAST SEND IT TO EVERYONE, MAYBE SOME WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
'They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.' -- Benjamin Franklin
(Personal Note: If anyone of us were this inept and did this, we would be fired or out of business. So why not fire them all and lets start over. Now as you know, this is my personal opinion and my personal blog, so anything I say here does not reflect Oasis Church opinion or policy. But I bet it does represent 99% of the normal American Citizen. The only ones who might disagree don't really know whats happening or either they don't want to get their head out of the proverbial partisan sand, and thats my humble personal opinion)
